For the stick: At the happ site the colors to choose from were black, red, blue, yellow, and green. I didn’t want to go black as thats the color of the stock stick, and would look the same as if i had not modded it at all.
Plus black is REALLY overused when it comes to electronics stuff. Blue, red, and green were out of the question for stick colors, so Yellow was an easy choice and i like it.
As for the buttons, i liked white & purple, and i also set the color-layout kinda like MVC2. With 1 color for the attack buttons, and 1 different color for the assists.
Hey guys, time for me to invade this thared, becaues I just realized it existed. It doesn’t seem to show up for me when I browse techtalk though. anyways know why?.
This thread has existed since 01/01/2003. That means this thread is 4 years old! The oldest, if not one of the oldest thread on SRK that is till going strong. It was so popular that we ever have a sticks/tech section to post in via the the front page, but you must have an account to post.
There is so much fucking information, it isn’t even funny. Only problem is trying to find the damn thing since it spread out over the 100 some pages. I even made a part II, and it was I think early last year that Javi has stickyed a thread including those thread, modding, 360 wiring, and something else.
That is why it isn’t/hardly shows up on the ‘first page’ because it is already sticked (the link anyway) in an existed thread that no one bothers to check first. I might pm him to changed the title of that sticky so people can easily notice it, because those thread still exist.
i have a real arcade pro stick 2 and i am not happy with the “looks” of the device.
So i am planning to take the joystick and the MAIN parts like the main buttons and start, select, and put those parts in a self made casing. The question now is is this possible? And how its done? Maybe this question is already posted here for that i apologize. thanx
Is anyone prepared to make me a joystick? I do not have the time or the competence to make one but i do have the money to buy one, we’d talk about the design but it’d be pretty standard.
If you are, please pm me and let me know how cheap you would/could make one + send it to me in London UK.
IIRC, I believe it is only cheaper IF you have experience with such things, otherwise you’ll be wasting a lot more money with errors and such. Don’t take my word for it though. Wait for an experienced builder to post a reply =P
I’ve never seen it before. Now I have 137 pages to go thru?! …Damn you.
In regards to the question above, I have a quote from Toodles some where that answers this question rather well…
**"Don’t. Just don’t. If you try to build one, it’ll suck, you’ll want to build another, you’ll be buying all these tools, that one sucked too so you make another and another getting a little better each time but never actually making you happy and you’ve spent over $1k before you know what happened.
Figure out what you want, and have someone else make it. You will NOT be able to build cheaper than you can buy on your first stick and get anything near as good."** -Toodles
I thought that was funny. :u: Thats my life :looney:
the first time i modded a stick was a tekken 5 anniversary.
$50 stick
$40 sanwa parts
$10 soldering iron
$5 wire
$3 solder
$3 desoldering braid
$40 dremel
i spent over $160 not including tax to basically make a $110 shipped hrap that i could have just added $20 worth of buttons to and it would be solid. it took me 2 days to do my first one and the wiring would fall apart after heavy play and i’d have to resolder it all back up just for it to fall apart again.
i did get better at modding stuff after doing a few more sticks but if i just wanted one modded stick and was on a budget i’d definitely have someone else build it for me who can build it right the way i want it.
i can’t even think of how much it would have cost if i made my own case and had to buy the right cutting tools, drill, drill bits, paint, etc., not to mention the nightmare it can be to cut plexi/lexan or have the correct angles in cutting wood or mounting depths to mount sticks correctly. pain in the ass i tell you.
thats why i give props to all those stick builders who charge so little for something that takes so much time and knowledge to do.
just think about how long it takes to cut up wood and paint it the way alot of builders are doing. takes like a week to do just paint with all the sanding and layering. for $200 or whatever they’re being charged for they’re making way less than minimum wage with all the time that is put into one stick after cost of just the materials.
